bashing ED: EPISODE12 - Why Wiki When We Write?

Thursday, May 15, 2008

EPISODE12 - Why Wiki When We Write?

There's be lots of talk about wiki (wiki) and their popularity and that using a wiki would be cool for the classroom. Really? Let's take a look at some of the possibilities.

Top of the show:

ChaCha (a really useful texting service: ask a question, get an answer).
Utterz (audioblogging via your cell phone)

The creator of wikis, Ward Cunningham talks about wikis and other things on FLOSS weekly (with Randal Schartz and Leo Laporte)

CommonCraft explanation of how a wiki works. [video]

Popular wiki sites:

Download this episode here.

Next episode: EPISODE13 - Please don't let teachers blog!

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About bashingED

bashing education is more metaphor than literal and is a call for clear thinking within education and its use of technology. As a metaphor, bash is a reference to the shell in many *nix systems. Instead of relying on the GUI-eye-candy of the point-and-click way of computing, returning to the command line is a way of thinking--a way of returning to complete control and with that control, more power.

As it applies to education--and especially technology--we really need to return to the main focus of any tool: how to use that tool for learning. In short, let's uncover the rhetoric, the slick slideware presentations, the spiffy 4-color mailers that promise and promise, and return to the days of the command line. Enter a command, and things happen. Once we're comfortable with entering in a command, we can string a couple of commands together and then perhaps do some scripting within education.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

EPISODE12 - Why Wiki When We Write?

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